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Leo Perutz

1882 - 1957

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Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882 – 25 August 1957) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. Born in Prague, he lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine. According to the biographical note on the Arcade Publishing editions of the English translations of his novels, Leo was a mathematician who formulated an algebraic equation which is named after him; he worked as a statistician for an insurance company. He was related to the biologist Max Perutz. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Perutz is the 261st most popular mathematician (down from 180th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 140th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leo Perutz ranks 261 out of 1,004. Before him are Constantin Carathéodory, Richard von Mises, Ibn Yunus, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. After him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Aristyllus, Al-Khazini, Eugène Charles Catalan, Lady Byron, and Kazimierz Kuratowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Leo Perutz ranks 74. Before him are John Bauer, Dušan Simović, Feng Yuxiang, John Rabe, Johnny Torrio, and Franz Seldte. After him are Eugène Joseph Delporte, Leopold Stokowski, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Joaquín Turina, Lucien Petit-Breton, and Artur Schnabel. Among people deceased in 1957, Leo Perutz ranks 57. Before him are Max Amann, Johnny Torrio, Édouard Herriot, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Arnold van Gennep, and Louis B. Mayer. After him are Sacha Guitry, Qi Baishi, Hermann Buhl, Rudolf Diels, Giovanni Battista Caproni, and Harald Sverdrup.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Leo Perutz ranks 173 out of 1,200. Before him are Věra Chytilová (1929), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Bretislav I (1005), Blanche of Valois (1316), Balthasar Neumann (1687), and Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110). After him are Ivo Viktor (1942), Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800), Josef Ressel (1793), Milada Horáková (1901), Adolf Schärf (1890), and Petr Čech (1982).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Czechia

Among mathematicians born in Czechia, Leo Perutz ranks 2. Before him are Kurt Gödel (1906). After him are Johannes Widmann (1460), Johann Radon (1887), Eduard Čech (1893), and Olga Taussky-Todd (1906).

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